Enshittification
OverdriveVille
Happy New Year.
Which means that it is now the year that the worsening of all things online will continue at warped speed:
Meta is betting that characters generated by artificial intelligence will fill its social media platforms in the next few years as it looks to the fast-developing technology to drive engagement with its 3bn users.“We expect these AIs to actually, over time, exist on our platforms, kind of in the same way that accounts do,” said Connor Hayes, vice-president of product for generative AI at Meta.“They’ll have bios and profile pictures and be able to generate and share content powered by AI on the platform . . . that’s where we see all of this going,” he added.Hayes said a “priority” for Meta over the next two years was to make its apps “more entertaining and engaging”, which included considering how to make the interaction with AI more social...
Now.
I know that Norm Farrell, NVG, DS, and Dr. Beer 'N Hockey are on the level because I've actually met them, in person, in real life.
And I think I met GarFish in a past life.
And I've known Danneau, and Graham, and eaf, and EE, and TB, and Scotty on Denman, and Lew E, and Chuckstraight, and JP, and Keith, and Grant G, and just about all the rest of you who have been stopping by here occasionally since the days when AI grifterians like Sam Altman were still in short pants and/or were about to quit Stanford. Thus, I'm pretty sure you all are real as well.
But what do we do when a new commenter shows up now?
Do we have them to send us imprints of their retinas and, maybe, cheek swabs just to be sure they're something more than neural-networked gobs of goo in the machine?
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Image at the top of the post?...Header originator Dorothy Parker working her typewriter far from the madding Algonquin Roundtable crowd at her farmhouse in Bucks County PA...The guy sitting by the window is not Paul Newman. Instead, it's her then husband Alan Campbell... The photo was taken in 1937, the year the two of them worked with collaborator Robert Carson to write the screenplay to 'A Star Is Born'.
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Image at the top of the post?...Header originator Dorothy Parker working her typewriter far from the madding Algonquin Roundtable crowd at her farmhouse in Bucks County PA...The guy sitting by the window is not Paul Newman. Instead, it's her then husband Alan Campbell... The photo was taken in 1937, the year the two of them worked with collaborator Robert Carson to write the screenplay to 'A Star Is Born'.
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Yabut isn’t Grant G a cat? No matter, at least he’s real.
I see now, when I do a google search, the very first thing to come up is an AI generated response of strung together factoids. Not so bad in and of itself I suppose but I don’t consider it a quotable or rock solid source.
Why would meta want to have AI accounts lurking amongst the actually people accounts complete with photos and back stories? This sounds like a grifters dream. Aren’t there already ripoff’s happening because people are getting scammed by fake profiles on dating and marketing and investing sites? If someone can generate and control an AI account for nefarious reasons wouldn’t that be a bad thing? It seems us chickens will once again be ripe for the plucking.
PS: I’ve gone off here and totally forgot to give a human generated
Happy New Year to Ross and all who stop by to read and/or post up and share their thoughts and opinions. It’s very nice to have a few places we can count on to be populated by folks who are offering up reasonable opinions and civil discourse. All the best to everyone for the new year.
I am real, well i think I am as i do not think AI has heart attacks or can be sued by some politcans.
I am familiar with AI bots and they do not suffer from dyslexia or other all too human conditions, isn't that right HAL 9000?
Anyways, coffee any time if you come south of the Fraser, through my tiny burg when you are on the way to the Island.
Message delivered.
Good title. And yes, what fresh Hell does 2025 hold for us.
Happy new year to RossK . Keep up the good work.
Previous comment was me.
Happy New Year to all.......remember to keep it real!
10 dead and 35 badly injured in New Orleans is a good indication what 2025 will be...............
It's difficult to believe what we see and hear now !
We are entering the year/era of the cynic and with due cause.
Anyway; the best of the year to you all, keep the conversation going!
TB
Happy new year to all.thanks to Ross for the insights and music. I met Ross in person briefly at royal bay beach a few years back, as his pops and I live in colwood. signed, human, D.S 😉
OK- OK, who is writing the script for 2025?
First we get a classic US mass murder in New Orleans, then a Tesla Cyber Truck explode in front of the Trump Hotel in Las Vegas.
And this is Jan. 1st!
Meanwhile, a simple handle change on his enshittified social media platform by someone who just might already have what most would consider enough wealth results in a 2000% increase in the value of a crypto currency that has a fortuitous(?) moniker. Apparently the bad guys’ enshittification process works for crypto too.
How long before AI generated bots can legally own crypto? Or has that already happened?
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy53vz1qpx1o
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Norman, Laila, Dave, ...... who else ... and you, and your bike, took up a table
Maybe not in a past life. I think I met you last April near 33rd and Main. We talked about my home built e-bike. You said I should remove my Winter studded tires, I said that would be happening the next weekend. We never introduced ourselves, but I was pretty sure it was you.
Thanks Graham--
Civil discourse based on demonstrable facts is, in my opinion, the Grail of the Spaghetti Monster for online discourse. Of course, that also means that demonstrable untruths must be given no quarter.
All the best to you and yours as well!
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EE--
Oh, I'm pretty sure they're working on post-cardiac and political litigation simulation algorithms. Thus, that face-to-face is a pre-requisite. Plus, I'd like to hear what you really think about the size of Canada Line stations.
Give me a shout at pacificgazette@yahoo dot ca to set it up.
Heckfire - anybody who wants to can do that as well!
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Thanks Chuck and JP--
Really appreciate all your insightful comments.
Happy New Year to you and yours as well!
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TB--
Always enjoy our discussions - even when we don't fully agree!
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Great to hear from you again DS.
The Whackadoodle II, e. and I were all down at the beach last week during those crazy high tides. Sorry we missed you all!
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You are probably right that it has already happened. Of course, we won't know until somebody like Mittens Romney announces something to the effect that, 'AI Bots are people too my friends!'.
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NVG--
Ya - forgot my lock that day!
Alison of the still up, but long not updated, Creekside, was there as well as was Chris L., who, like Dave, was from the Galloping Beaver.
Gate crasher Ian King was there also. I've long enjoyed Ian's stuff since back in the days when he wrote for Terminal City. At the Olympia though, I got the impression that he was belittling us terminally naive bloggers for thinking that anything we were doing would matter to anyone down the road.
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GarFish--
Ya... that was me!
As for the past...Not at Monterey Elementary many years ago?
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Yes I did go to Ol' Monterey with you! I just meant more recently than a past life!
I quite enjoy your use of the term "enshittified". Thank you.
Ahhh...Got it!
At some point in the future AI is not going to do humans many favours, well except those making money on it. AI may even become a way to put out information that is so out of wack it endangers people, animals, social systems, etc. but who do we arrest? Who do we sue? I can see some one in court saying, I didn't do it, my computer did it and I didn't authorize it to do any of that. AI information at some point becomes believed and no longer checked. gee what could go wrong there.
Facebook and Tik Tok are wierd. A few months ago signed on in an attempt to locate some one. That worked. Wasn't keen on it but.........being the only person I knew not on Facebook, etc., noticed my quality of life did not go down. It was the same.
In 1968, was with a friend and they went to where the very large first computer was at SFU. Yes, it was large and yes it did all sorts of things. At one level it was impressive. On an other, not so much. In 1971 went to work for the federal government, U.I.C., and they had computers and they could do all sorts of tricks and with the humans typing into it, etc. that computer could do even other things that weren't legal. Figured as long as it was guarded and people were honest it would be o.k. Then of course computer technology advanced and the fun was on.
Becoming aware of what computers could do always stuck to the old line of, "if you don't want to see it on the front page of your local newspaper, don't put it in writing".
Computers can say anything and make it look good. That is the problem. People don't stop to think what they are being informed about That causes problems. It works for corporations, but in the long run, not for most of us.
Enjoyed Cory Doctorow's post.
I've always liked books and trusted the stories, more than other sources. Some books have been around a very long time and it takes time to actually make them. Things on computers, not so much, just push a few keys adn you have a whole new something and it may not even be real. Perhaps we need courses on how to differentiate between AI and human produced.
HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERY ONE! enjoy reading all the comments.
I know Norm Farrell is real, just didn't know he was the person who was referred to as "the accountant".
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